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As temperatures soar across northern China, residents in Beijing cool themselves off in the city's Liangma River while others shield themselves from the sun with umbrellas. China is the biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases that scientists say are driving climate change and longer, hotter heatwaves. IMAGES
Britain will gradually boost its defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2030, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces during a visit to Poland. "Over the next six years, we'll invest an additional 75 billion pounds in our defence," Sunak says alongside Jens Stoltenberg, NATO chief. SOUNDBITE
A construction site for a Hong Kong high-rise is engulfed in flames, with firefighters on the scene battling the blaze. Officials say the fire broke out at 11:11pm local time (0311 GMT) in the heart of Tsim Sha Tsui, a busy shopping and tourist district on the city's world-famous harbourfront. IMAGES
"Even though we had no indications that any of these three objects were surveilling, we couldn't rule that out," White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby tells reporters during a briefing, as questions about the three unidentified flying objects downed by US Air Force jets over North America in three days intensify. SOUNDBITE
Images of locked down compounds and queues for Covid testing in Beijing. China currently faces its highest amount of Covid cases since the pandemic began, official data showed Thursday. IMAGES
Surging inflation and severe slowdowns in the United States and China prompted the IMF to downgrade its outlook for the global economy this year and next, while warning that the situation could get much worse. SOUNDBITE
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